movie star

1. 1.

   a star who plays leading roles in the cinema

   Synonymsfilm star

   Broaderstarscreen actor

Questions about movie star

What does movie star mean?

movie star means "a star who plays leading roles in the cinema".

What is another word for movie star?

Close synonyms include film star. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is movie star a common word?

movie star is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.